Cookie-List – what all is shown here without further explanation?

Hi @bestcases,

The scan additionally works by opening pages of your website in an invisible iFrame, which will cause these Cookies/LocalStorage to be set in your browser and reported in the scan results. This would be the expected reason why the items (tADu, tTE, tMQ, tADe…) still appeared after you had cleared your entire browser cache, as the invisible iFrame caused them to be set again.

In your previous reply, you mentioned that Complianz reported more items than you expected it to. The reason for that is that the items tADu, tTE, tMQ, tADe etc. are LocalStorage entries, so they can be found under DevTools > Application > Local Storage (instead of under Cookies).

I have verified what you said about these items being set by the Kadence Theme, rather than the Kadence Blocks plugin. That does appear to be the case, indeed. I have referred this information to the CookieDatabase moderators.

I hope this helps/clarifies.
Kind regards,
Jarno

OK. I got a message from Kadence, which clearly states that Kadence theme won’t place any cookies on the front end (unless in combination with WooCommerce and a certain setting, which does not apply for me).

As stated in the previous post, I can confirm what Kadence says:
In my browser I won’t find any of the cookies Complianz finds in the Backend, which are supposed to come from Kadence. So something must be off there…

I would really like to see this sorted out. Both seem to be good tools, and I would like to use them together.

Is there any way you can get in contact with the Kadence team? I don’t know how to contribute to this issue from my end any more, but will do so if asked and if I can.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by bestcases.

Hi @bestcases
Together with @jarnovos I have done some extensive testing. You can still see the testwebsite Jarno build for this purpose: https://kadencetheme.us.instawp.xyz/index.php/2022/02/23/20/
And on that website, you can actually see the list of local storage items being placed front end. If we changed themes (not using Kadence) the items are not being placed, so it must be Kadence.

Now, where do these Local Storage items come from? After researching the code of the Kadence theme we discovered the following: when you go to wp-content/themes/kadence/assets/js/tiny-slider.min.js?ver=11.1.14 you can actually see that it is that script within the Kadencetheme that is using local storage for the list of “items” such as tADu, tTE, tMQ etc.

In cookiedatabase those items from the kadence theme are now booked under https://cookiedatabase.org/service/pagebuilder

and the other items from Blocks are booked under:
https://cookiedatabase.org/service/kadence-blocks/

Thank you for your continuous effort on this matter.

I did go to the website you created, opened the developer tools, and did check for cookies.

First I have a question:
You are referring to “local storage items”, not cookies? Would local storage items fall under cookies under your perspective?

When I go to the test-page you created, all I get is “No data present for selected host” under cookies and local storage.
See picture here.

I still don’t see any cookies placed on the front end. I am starting to feel stupid. Surely, I must miss something here?

Hi @bestcases

Yes, Ofcourse do local storage items fall under the ePrivacy Directive (the EU cookielaw). That means they should be treated in the same way as one would treat cookies (and pixels, scripts, API etc etc). The cookielaw applies to all technical means that store and/or read information on a browser or device of a websitevisitor. This is why we think Kadence must have misunderstood the question about “cookies”. They do not use cookies, but instead they use Local storage. For the law that however makes no difference. Those items should be listed.

The picture you just posted only seems to include “cookies”. If you go to Local storage (and make sure you do not have your add blocker on) the list with items should show up. Or maybe you can try it in another browser?

Alternatively you can just see it for yourself in the code of the kadence theme.